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Amazing info, thanks! The Census Number fits with the Demand (British Ministry of Supply purchase contract) S/M 2028, and now wh have a NZ nuner as well! This was presumably one of the 219 Chevrolet and Morris-Commercial Portees "sold" to the NZ Government as obsolete by 1944.
The Build Plate should read something like:
GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA
MADE IN GM CANADA
OSHAWA WALKERVILLE REGINA
MODEL 84-40x2
SERIAL 184409615
ENGINE 3758552 BODY SERIAL _??_
TRIM WR or XR PAINT F.C.98
But the serial number is out-of-sequence with any known (to date) CGT/Portee chassis...could the number be 18440 2 9615? Also the TRIM section should have either "WR" or "XR", with the latter more likely...that's the engine number prefix, with the "R" being right hand drive, and the "W" and "X" being the type of 216 cu in Chevy unit.
The cab is of course the number 42 open derivative of the number 12 cab, but in NZ I wonder if the truck was rebuilt as a G/S 30-cwt or 3-tonner, or continued as a Portee, which would have meant mods to the cab?
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